A History of the English Language

With an emphasis on more recent periods, every key stage in the history of the language is covered, with full accounts of standardisation, names, the distribution of English in Britain and North America, and its global spread. The history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world language, is a subject of major importance to linguists and historians. New historical surveys of the crucial aspects of the language are presented, and historical changes that have affected English are treated as a continuing process, helping to explain the shape of the language today. This complete and up-to-date history of English will be indispensable to all advanced students, scholars and teachers in this prominent field. In this book, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the English language, outlining its development over fifteen centuries.

Facing a world "gone to pieces the way Liberia and Haiti and Santo Domingo once did, when white rule ceased," Stern nurtures his "deep-seated love for the memory of the race of men and women as they had once been." Finally, in the last of the novels, The Afterglow, he establishes a new social system among the other survivors they encounter, a system in which man is free at last because of the elimination of money, the proliferation of scientific thought, and the introduction of the English language, that "magnificent language, so rich and pure," its purity mimicking the racial purity achieved once the "horde" has been "wiped out." More precisely than Burroughs's work, then, England's trilogy occupies the ideology of its era, most familiar in Theodore Roosevelt's claim, from The Winning of the West (1899), that "the -363- spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been…the most striking feature in the world's history." And England's novels exhibit the same contradictions as does Roosevelt's ideal of the "strenuous life," a call away from "overcivilization" that is still a call to "civilize" the world ...»

Politics and the English LanguageOrwell said that political prose was formed "to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. " Orwell believed that, because this writing was intended to hide the truth rather than express it, the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless.1596 руб 2010 год 108 стр. мягкая обложка

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English LanguageThe Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth' s Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between words. It' s an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language, taking in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, and explaining precisely what the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.958 руб 2012 год 288 стр. мягкая обложка

Politics and the English LanguageWhen the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. ' Language is a political issue, and slovenly use of language and cliches make it easier for those in power to deliberately use misleading language to hide unpleasant political facts. Bad English, he believed, was a vehicle for oppressive ideology, and it is no accident that ' ' Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell' s most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth. ' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.205 руб 2013 год 32 стр. мягкая обложка

Iranian Immigrants in the United States. History, Migration Trends, Language, and Cultural Maintenance among Second Generation Iranian ImmigrantsThis book takes the reader through a historical journey of the country of Iran' s history and migration trends of Iranians that have immigrated to the United States. Through an empirical research study conducted and highlighted in the book, the author highlights how second generation Iranian immigrants have created a balance between their parental traditional standards and their country of birth? s cultural norms, in addition to maintaining their Persian language. It further illustrates the hardships and adjustments Iranians have had to endure to assimilate and acculturate to their new host country, the United States.2005 руб 2008 год 64 стр. мягкая обложка

History of the English fiscal systemAlthough periods of great upheaval occurred from the time of the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the 20th century, the line of connection is almost entirely unbroken.1596 руб 2010 год 120 стр. мягкая обложка